"For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our/your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.........but Christ is all, and in all." (Col.3:3-4;11)nasbBegin seeing Christ behind everything. When you finally understand that Christ is everything, then you will share with the Father the most precious thing He has-His Son. Christ will become your only perspective, your only hope, your only possession, and your only interest. Everything else will fade into insignificance.
One particular version of verse 3:11, put it this way....."Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us." (cev)
The deeper you forge into this mystery, which is.... "Christ in you, the hope of glory." the more you will begin to realize that He transcends every dogma, that He explodes every religious tradition and perceived natural reality.................. HE IS....therefore i am
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Wonderful thoughts!
ReplyDeletePeople think the pearl of great price is "Jesus", who we must give up everything to have. But I think WE are the pearl of great price, that Jesus gave up everything to buy. He paid a great price, didn't he?
Bruce,
ReplyDeleteI know He thinks Much More of us,than we think of ourselves.........
Grace to you, tripp
All humankind have “right standing” with God now, because of what Jesus Christ did.
ReplyDeleteI met a young woman whom I knew God was with. She wasn’t a “christian”. In fact, hadn’t even heard of God or had the slightest inclination to be awakened to God. But her life was hid in Christ. God was already in her. You don’t believe me? A few years later in God’s time she awakened and started to grow spiritually as the Christ life in her began moving to her own consciousness and revealing himself to her there. God had been in her, was with her, had already done some changing of her nature, and her life was hid with Christ in God, but she didn’t know it. She actually had a spirit which was largely clear and clean (nah, you can’t have that…all are sinners without a professed, conscious “accepting Christ into their lives” and will go to hell if they don’t admit they are sinners!), and in her order or time she was drawn awake but not by christendom. These people would have classed her as “lost” in “sin”. If it was left to churchianity’s agenda they’d hurry the thing, oppress with “the 3 spiritual laws” and all the other rigid “this is the only way it’s done” methodology. No wonder God so often circumvents it! The point is, that ALL are saved already, and God is in control of all the awakenings and degrees of development of that. Sometimes (maybe many times) God's hand is not just on people but in them also. Jesus Christ has won the right to do and be that to people. No system of understanding will ever limit God’s ways.